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Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ὀροβῐ́ᾱς (orobíās).
Pronunciation
Noun
orobiās m (genitive orobiae); first declension
- kind of incense small in grains, resembling the chickpea
Declension
First-declension noun (masculine Greek-type with nominative singular in -ās).
References
- “orobias”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- orobias in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.